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- Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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We need to make thorough background checks and mental evaluations required in every state. Beyond that I don’t think any restrictions on the weapons themselves are necessary or particularly effective. The guns need to be kept out of reach of the kind of people who will commit atrocities, not out of reach of law abiding citizens. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
I know most everyone here disagrees with that sentiment, but that’s how I figure it. Pretty much every shooting that has occurred has happened because there was a neglect for making sure the wrong person doesn’t get the gun.
On another note, if they can’t get guns, they’ll make homemade explosive devices out of fertilizer and blow the school up. If they can’t do that, they’ll take the steak knife from the kitchen and stab some people.
Another problem is the media coverage being way too specific.
From 2016: https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2016/05/04/mediashootings
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to be fair, most of these mass shooting are done with semi-auto rifles(they fire a round each time the trigger is pulled) and not automatic or fully automatic rifles(when you pull the trigger, they fire round after around after round until the trigger is released or until the weapon runs out of ammo). Even the Las Vegas shooting was technically not done with an automatic or fully automatic rifle. It was with a semi-auto rifle equipped with bump-stock, which for all intends and purposes turns a semi-auto rifle into a fully automatic rifle.
Fully automatic rifles are much more regulated than semi-automatic rifles.
I feel we should get our facts and terminology correct.
